The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1887-03-23

t,~ f,c.s would glow and heir hearts """''
hnund II they saw You lnaN. on >t'P .,;.
ward, So intricate and IL lea''''o
web Of sympathy that | ''hIa pE nv I'VE
ro,Ise a great many prayers III S'"' mn,I
No ,D. cares fov your soul. WY, DIV @
If distress, on YOUR part wouldthEiii KID
a,r. with holy excitement. II a"o'' !"
bo rboy should get III distress, from I"' I"'
~r,,r and from the sloopS, ami lE".!' 81"
o.,n.,s the living paddles would pun !" III:
,,,s,,. And if now You would ili' we 80.
y. .1;..r.~. al these voyaSers "f '''I''E
n.,,,II I.,,r down toward YOU and hTIhS 70"
,.,,;nf Hur NO, Won are like a ship on "'
-. -, They keep the hatcheH "'"h'
n,,; Nv. cYu,;ain Is frcMzled, anu II"
r;,.a. ORDERS that no on" hail the iASSli-
IT;r. Ho SAWS: i shall either iAi'd ms
,..lcl IN Hamburg or on the bott''n oil '',
m, owl Cont care which lohHtl IS"
>fimnf IN. White Star line passing. I""'v'
n..t vi the National line. lonoe' uas
azsraneearsssTf*~rta ~7rv sTt rS jcNr;~; 10
HI IN, and cry out: "I."wer your boats:
H'ar do"n this way, We are burning ~.
Fire. FirH!' No. No. No signal is given.
Ii that vessel r~"riShos, having. hailed no one.
wEo g fault vii it be: VIII ii he the ::Iul; y,
the ship that hid its calamity, or will il IT,
the fault of the vessels that, passing on The
high seas, would have been glad to furnish re-
lief If 1t haG been only asked: IN other words.
my brother, if you miss heaven it will he
{ your own fault.
No one care for Your soul. Why, in all the
ages there have been men whose entire bust
ness was soul saving. III this work Mullson
went down under the knives of toe CannilalS
whom he had come to save. and Robert Nc
Cheync preached himself to death BY 80 years
of age, and John Bumyan was thrown into i
dungeon III BeifordShire. and Jehudi Ash
man endured all the nlalariaS of the African
jungle; and there are hundreds and thousands
of Christian men and women now who arc
praying, tolllng, preaching, living, dying, to
save souls.
No one care for your soul! Have you
heard how Christ feels about it? | know it
was only five or six miles from Bethlehem 10
Calvary, the birthplace and the deathplace of
Christ; but who can tell how many miles il
was from the throne 10 the ,langer! How
many miles down, how many miles back
again! The place OF his departure was tue
focus Of all splcndor and pomp; all tho
thrones facing his throne; his name the
chorus III every song and the ~insc"ip-
ton on every banner; his landing place a
cattle pen, iralOdOrOus with unwashel brut.s.
and dogs growing III and out OF the stable.
Born OF u weary mother who had journeyed
eighty miles IL severe unhealth that she
might find the right place for the Lords ma
tlvlty-born, not Us other princes, under the
flash Of u chandelier, but under q Lantern.
swung by O rope to tie roof of the barn. In
that place Christ started to save You. Your
name, your face, your time, your eternity,
IN ChrlSts mind. Sometimes travelling on
miles back to escape old He-od's massacre,
sometimes attempting nervous sleep on the
chilly hillside, sometimes earning his break
fast by the carpentry Of 4 plow. In QuaraN-
tania the stones Of the field, by their shape
and color, looking like the loaves of bread.
tantah2ing his hunger. Yet all the time
keeping on after you. With drenched coat }
treaGing tho surf at Genessaret. Howlel after
by a bloodthirSty mob. Denounced as a ,
druAkard. Mourning over u doomed city. !
wE;!e Others shouted at tbs sight of the SHIN
mering towors. All tho timo coming on and
coming on to save you. Indicted as being 4 +!
traitor against government, ~lnriurei wit
nesses swearing their souls away r" insure :
his butcherv. Fl"sged, spit on. s!at,i,ed III
the Sass 4 tSeH boosted, on rough humber: I
the first infant step TO the last step of ma~,
hood on the sharp spike Of Calvary a journey !
for YOU. Oh, how he cared for your &ou. !
BY dolorous arithmetic add up the stable. the
wintry tempest, the midnight dampueSs, the
abstinence Of forty days from faod, the
brutal SanhedriNl, the heights OF &2elgotha, !
across which all the hatredS of earth and all
the furies Of he'll charged with taear bayonets, .
and then dare TO say again thai no one cares
for Your soul.
\ Young man might as We'll go off from
horne and give his father and mother no i'll
timation AZ 10 w:herc h. has gone, and, cross !
ing the ScaS, sitting d,!wn III soule foreign
country. cold, Sit.; aed, hHnS.,r and lonely, +
saving: N fnt.or and unther don't care
anvthins about me- Do not care anything
about him, Why. that fathers hair has
turned gray since his sou went or. He has
written to all the consuls il the foreign ports, J
asking about that son. Does not the mother
care anything about him, lie has broken bcr
heart. She has never smiled since he w aut
away. All day long, and almost all night,
She keeps asking: where is he: Wnera q
be be-" lie is the first thought III her ,.,rav,r
and the last thought iii her prayer, lhe fist
thought in the morning and the last 1T night.
She SAYS: Oh, Gol, bring back III s boy,
must see him again before | die. Where is
he: must see him again before l die" Oh,
do not his father and mother care for him!
You go away from your Heavenly Father,
and you think be does not care for
YOU because you will not even aaNd the letters
by u.hjrl H.. ipritnS vol, IN f.~s,,a locly whit,
all heaven is waiting, ana waiting, and
waiting for YOU to return, \ young man
said to his father: Il am going off; | will
write to you at the end al seven years and
tell You where I am" Many years have
passed along since thar son Went away. and
for years the father has been going to the
depot in the village, on the arrival of every
train, and when he hears the whistle in the
distance he is thrilled with excitement, and
he waits until all the passengers have come
out. and then he waits until the train has
gone clear out OF sight again, and then he
GOES home, Fastening back to the next train:
and be will be at every train until that son
comes back, unless the son waits until the
father be dead. But oh, the greater patience
Of Goi. H. has heen waiting for you, not seven
years, not nine Years, but for some OF yOu,
twenty Years. thirty years, forty years, fifty
years waiting, calling waiting, calling
until n"tEir- hut o%mnip0tent patience could
n.ent. We do care for your soaalh."r Io no!
5ath night, Years ago, in my church in Brook
iyn, q Young man appeared at TIE end Of tie
Platform and he &aid 10 me: Il lave inst coma
oil III" so. said; "When did you ~urrive!"
Sad he: Il came into port this afternoon. |
was III a great bow of Cape HatteyaS this
last week, and | Thought that | might AZ
well ;" 20 heaven as to hell. |
Thought the snip would sink; but, sir,
| never very seriously thought abou,
my soul until tonight" I said to him: Do
got feel that Christ is able and willing to
save you" oh, yes he replied, Il do"
We'll" said, now are you willing to come
and be saved by Him: Il am" he said.
well, will You now, il the prayer we are
about 70 offer, give yourself to God for time !
and eternity" Il will" h. said. Then yxe
kneIt III PRAYER, and after We had Sot 4,
through praying, he told me that tIs> great
transformation had taken place. / Gould
not doubt it. He Is Oh the SET Aow. / do
know what other port hu may gain pr
loS', but think he will g:.:a the harbor Of :
heaven.
Star "f p"ar". b'2u, Ger IN" biil,w, !
Bless III" >'nt'hHt signs for Thee: =, /
Bless the sailors lonely pillow, .